Hey Kids! Who wants a Mocktail??

Tonight, the world celebrates the coming of the new year with clinking champagne glasses, eventual slurred speech, and possible DUIs. You, my teetotalling Mormon friends? For you, I present the great mocktail recipe exhchange. Eat, drink, be merry, and wake up tomorrow without a hangover, contemplating how you don’t need to set goals, because you constantly strive for anything virtuous, lovely, of good report, and praiseworthy (including virtuous–or rather virgin–beverages). I’ve pulled together links from favorite websites that have fantastic mocktail recipes. Please feel free to post your own favorite mocktail recipe in the comments below, and then return and report on your holiday festivities.

My favorite mocktail? Well, the recipe is at home on my fridge, but it’s basically cranberry and apple juice, with a dash of lime and grenadine, and a couple spoonfulls of yummy coconut cream. Blend with ice and enjoy!

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Also, vanilla strawberry lemonade. Make lemonade as usual, then take a couple handfuls of frozen strawberries, whiz them up in the blender, and throw them in the lemonade along with a teaspoon or so of vanilla extract.

And a warning to you non-alcoholic beer drinkers, it still contains .5% alcohol. What does that mean? Be careful not to drink over 40 cans if you want to be able to drive home with a BAC lower than 0.08!!!

It’s hard being Diabetic and having to say no to all these delicious blends…Just too much sugar in most. But using diet sodas does help. Personally, I do usually enjoy Diet Coke…the real kind with caffeine. It think the caffeine gives my insulin resistant cells a little boost.

– orange juice concentrate (a third or half of a can, depending on the size)
– 3 cups of milk
– 8 ice-cubes (you want enough to make the drink thick and cold)
– 1/3 cup of sugar
– just a bit of vanilla (i usually just fill the small vanilla container cap and drop it in)